SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - This year's edition of the Sioux Empire
Fair recorded its second highest attendance in 20 years.
The Sioux Falls event in 2011 made a net profit of $225,520.
Fair Association Executive Director Jo Beal told the Minnehaha
County Commission on Tuesday that near ideal weather brought
275,600 people to the W. H. Lyon fairgrounds. That's a 12.7 percent
increase from 2010.
Fair officials say attendance was also boosted with free
grandstand concerts and gate admission charged only after 1 p.m.
from Tuesday through Friday.
The profit marks the fair association's continued recovery from
an embezzlement scandal and financial challenges that had the
county commission considering whether to end the 70-year-old fair
and sell the fairgrounds as recently as two years ago.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
AP-NY-10-25-11 1515EDT
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